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The Chicago Lighthouse Adult Living Skills Program focuses on life skills training for adults who are blind or visually impaired with developmental disabilities. Program participants attend daily activities designed to develop self-sufficiency, increase independence, and help them actively participate in today's society. An individual service plan is developed for each participant to outline short-term and long-term goals.

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

Services

Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Supported Employment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation
Teaches life skills and community mobility. This is a supported community living environment. Respite care is provided.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Offers classes for those with a mental illness, an intellectual disability, or other disabling conditions. Classes help clients learn and develop skills to live successfully in the community and live independently at home.
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Offers classes for those with a mental illness, an intellectual disability, or other disabling conditions. Classes help clients learn and develop skills to live successfully in the community and live independently at home.
Transitional age program provides assistance for those youth and young adults transitioning to independent living, including subsidized housing, help with medications, budgeting, keeping house, etc. Transition age youth may be planning to transition out of foster care or their parents' home, or they may already be living on their own but need extra help to maintain their successful independence
Lutheran Social Services of Illinois (LSSI) - Portage Cragin Counseling Center's Journeys Program serves adults that are interested in building life and social skills through individual and group services. This program is staffed by social workers and counselors who work with each individual to personalize their goals, treatment plan, and participation in various group offerings.
Provides person-centered services directed toward Supported Community Living and self-advocacy training. Training in independent living skills: self-care, social skills, home maintenance/ housekeeping, and community access for individuals with developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury and chronic mental illness.

Services

Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assists individuals with barriers to independence while they live independently in the community.

Services

Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides day and respite services, and addresses individual needs and desires for care, for informed choices and the individual's vision for the future. OWL is an approved provider for the Brain Injury Waiver Program, which was created by Iowa State Legislature in 1996. Services provided through the program include, supported Community Living-designed to assist the consumer with daily living needs, which includes, but are not limited to, community skills, personal needs, budgeting, social skills, home management and individual advocacy.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Life Skills Education

Provides individualized programming for adults with developmental, physical, and medical disabilities. Offers the following services:
- Developing social skills and other everyday skills
- Various kinds of therapy
- Activities of daily living
- Pre-vocational and vocational skills training
- Communication development
- Community/vocational outings.

Services

Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation

- Advocates for the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.

- Coordinates public disability awareness activities including presentations to community groups.

- Assists individuals with hearing and speech disabilities access communication needs.

- Assists with independent living skills training (money management, assertiveness training, self-advocacy, etc.).

- Provides information and referral services.

- Provides peer mentoring for individual and group settings.

- Provides transition services such as moving qualified individuals from nursing facilities or other institutions to independent living.

- Assists youth with disabilities transition from high school to adult life.

- Provides personal assistant services.

- Operates a Community Advocacy Training program for youth and adults.

- Assists individuals with vision loss or blindness acquire assistive devices and skills training.

- Operates a medical equipment loan program.

- Provides mentoring for parents of youth with disabilities.

Services

Centers for Independent Living
Specialized Information and Referral
Assistive Technology Equipment
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Assistive Technology Equipment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Aspire - Careers and Living provides housing for older adults and people with disabilities to support an active and independent lifestyle.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
HCBS (HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES) programs provide training and support to people living in shared homes in the community with opportunities for learning skills to help develop independence.(Pella/Knoxville and Indianola/Des Moines regions).

SCL (SUPPORTED COMMUNITY LIVING) program is for those people who just need someone to "drop-in" to assist them with various things. Individuals in this program can live with their families, or they can live in their own home or apartment. A Living Skills Advisor will schedule time to meet with them every week to assist them with needed tasks - budgeting, cooking, cleaning, shopping, appointments, social skills, and problem solving.

SPIRITUAL SERVICES are available to all clients.

Services

Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
Residential Placement Services for People With Disabilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Programs that offer a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include:

-- Information and referral services.

-- Referrals for attendant care.

-- Attendant recruitment and training programs.

-- Independent living skills training.

-- Assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs.

-- Peer counseling.

-- Individual and community advocacy.

-- Transition from institutions into the community.

-- Deflection from institutional placement.

-- Transition from youth to adult services.

-- Advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

Services

Disability Rights Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Services for individuals with disabilities. Includes information and referral, service coordination, independent living skills training, individual and system advocacy, equipment loan and rental, barrier removal consultations and grants, and disability awareness training. Assists people with disabilities to transition from nursing homes to community based living.

Services

Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Disease/Disability Registries
Specialized Information and Referral
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Offers help to prepare intellectually disabled adults with substantial functional skill deficits to live and function within community settings. This is accomplished through the development and or maintenance of skills necessary for each individual served to obtain his/her maximum potential.

Residential services include Traditional Group Homes, Community Support Program, and Supported Community Living Services.

Traditional Group Home offers training in self-help skills, household management and leisure-time skills. These programs integrate people into the community in the least restrictive environment. All individuals are encouraged to have an outside activity. Group home sites are in Red Oak, Malvern, and Shenandoah.

Community Support Program teaches independent living skills to persons living in their own apartment or home. Individuals receive additional support services as needed such as transportation, personal shopping, meal planning, socialization, self-help skills, household management skills, and money management.

Supported Community Living Program provides up to 24 hours of support to assist individuals with their daily needs.

Respite Care Program provides short-term relief in the absence of the family or caregiver, such as a vacation or a night out.

Services

Centers for Independent Living
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Disability Related Transportation
Through the Intermittent CILA Program, adults with mild developmental disabilities live independently in a home or apartment, sometimes with one or more roommates. Services provided to these individuals are individualized and staff will provide training and assistance as needed with all aspects of living independently, including cooking and cleaning skills, transportation, assistance with medical needs, making and keeping appointments, grocery shopping, paying bills, and similar activities.

Provides assistance for youth, ages 17 up to age 23, who are preparing to exit or have 'aged out' of foster care or other court ordered placement, meet the challenges of living independently and transition successfully to adulthood.Case Management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

Services

Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Life Skills Education
Occupation Specific Job Training
Case/Care Management
Transitional Housing/Shelter